Victims of Language: Language as a Pre-condition of Transitional Justice in Colombia’s Peace Agreement

Suárez, Juan-Luis; Lizama-Mué, Yadira

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“…It is worth noting that each of these mechanisms, despite being intertwined, are a whole world of literature on their own. They enclose other aspects of peacebuilding as studies on memory (Jelin, 2003), forgiveness (Tutu, 1999), vengeance (Minow, 1999), and language (Suárez & Lizama-Mué, 2020), among many others. At the same time, they can be addressed from different approaches such as gender, territorial, or ethnic perspectives.…”

Section: Transitioning In the Middle Of Warmentioning

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Drug-Trafficking in Colombia: The New Civil War Against Democracy and Peacebuilding

Espejo

2021

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Drug-trafficking in Colombia has been a widely researched phenomenon, especially now, as the country undergoes a transition process with its older guerrilla. Now more than ever it is fundamental to examine how drug-trafficking organizations violent activities affect the consolidation of peace. This article considers different approaches to study violence derived from drug-trafficking, in order to advance towards the objectives of transitional justice. For that matter, this work is based on the idea that drug-trafficking directly generates and reproduces violence which is fueled by the structural violence present in the Colombian context. My thesis is that this phenomenon deters non-repetition guarantees and weakens democracy, which is why there will be three main arguments presented that will revolve around the lack of consensus and the implications of considering drug wars as civil wars, how decisions related to the conceptual apprehension limit the competence of international humanitarian law, and the need for holistic strategies capable of facing drug-trafficking’s political and violent power. Later, alternatives will be explored around the possibilities that each argument offers, as well as which aspects could contribute to a more appropriate approach to combat drug-trafficking. Lastly, I will defend why implementing bottom-up oriented actions can advance towards transitional justice’s intermediate and final objectives, as it is the only alternative that escapes fatalist, utopian or interventionist scenarios.

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Drug-Trafficking in Colombia: The New Civil War Against Democracy and Peacebuilding

Espejo

2021

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The Language of Inclusion: Using Critical Corpus-Based Methods to Study the Presence and Representation of “Women, Children and Vulnerable Groups” in Liberia’s Truth Commission

Evrard

2023

Soc Just Res

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While inclusion, participation and victim-centredness have become catchwords in transitional justice discourse, this rhetoric has not necessarily enabled the articulation of more complex identities and experiences, or the pursuit of varied justice claims. To probe this disconnect, this article engages with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Liberia, a mechanism established to reckon with the country’s history of internal armed conflict, and hailed for its involvement of vulnerable, disenfranchised and oft-overlooked groups. The article combines expressive theories of justice with an innovative corpus-based methodology to critically examine how the Commission made visible, defined and construed these actors through its language of inclusion. Results from word frequency, co-occurrence and sentiment analyses illustrate how the Commission foregrounded the plight and rights of women and children, and their participation as a vehicle for emancipation, but simultaneously reproduced universalist and static identities, fixation on sexual violence and child soldier recruitment, and subject positions lacking in positive or political capabilities. This duality points to inherent tensions in the expressive messaging of TJ institutions, and rather locates the transformative potential of their inclusionary language in the strategic openings it affords for victims’ groups, women and youth organizations in their broader trajectories towards justice and change.

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Responsibility to Reconcile: Adopting New Terms to Foster Recognition

Espejo

2023

forum. rev. dep. cienc. politica

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The present article is the second of a three-series collection of articles that analyze the power of language to introduce a new set of concepts in contexts where societies can foster peacebuilding in post-conflict scenarios. I build up on Hannah Arendt’s moral responsibility work to understand the need to analyze responsibility in transitional justice frameworks while landing it on peacebuilding discussions. The article advances in how this concept can contribute to fostering recognition, the role it plays in [re]building civic trust and, ultimately, promoting reconciliation. This study is motivated to find a way to engage civil society in the process where social grounds are rethought on respect as a basis. I present a proposal to use the concept of responsibility while suggesting a definition circumscribed to the context of peacebuilding during transition processes.

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Victims of Language: Language as a Pre-condition of Transitional Justice in Colombia’s Peace Agreement

Cited by 4 publications

References 13 publications

Drug-Trafficking in Colombia: The New Civil War Against Democracy and Peacebuilding

Drug-Trafficking in Colombia: The New Civil War Against Democracy and Peacebuilding

The Language of Inclusion: Using Critical Corpus-Based Methods to Study the Presence and Representation of “Women, Children and Vulnerable Groups” in Liberia’s Truth Commission

Responsibility to Reconcile: Adopting New Terms to Foster Recognition

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